The invisible web are web sites, web pages, documents, etc., that cannot be crawled by search engines like Google or Bing. Google and Bing use "spiders" to crawl the web and locate and index web pages. There are many resources on the Web that spiders cannot see or access including gated websites (subscription databases), dynamically generated web pages (news websites), or private networks (professional associations), library collections, etc.
To mine the invisible web or deep web you need to use special search engines including:
InfoMine is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.
Intute is created by a consortium of seven universities, working together with a whole host of partners.
University of Birmingham
University of Bristol
Heriot-Watt University
The University of Manchester
Manchester Metropolitan University
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
There are hundreds of thousands of databases that contain Deep Web content. CompletePlanet is the front door to these Deep Web databases on the Web and to the thousands of regular search engines — it is the first step in trying to find highly topical information. By tracing through CompletePlanet's subject structure or searching Deep Web sites, you can go to various topic areas, such as energy or agriculture or food or medicine, and find rich content sites not accessible using conventional search engines.
InfoPlease is a free, authoritative, and respected reference for Internet users, provides a comprehensive encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, dictionary, ...
Please keep in mind that when searching these resources from remote/home computers (computers not on the school network and thus not protected by our filters) that your filters may not be "strong" enough to block inappropriate images, e.g., images that appear based on a keyword search or ads that might appear on these sites. Make sure you are assisting your student with the image search process.
This portion of moby.com, 'film music', is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short. to use the site you log in(or on?) and are then given a password. you can then listen to the available music and download whatever you want to use in your film or video or short. the music is free as long as it's being used in a non-commercial or non-profit film, video, or short.
Science
Scirus
Scitable
Statistics
ZIPskinny
US Census data on your zip code and compare with neighboring zips others.
Dictionaries & Thesauruses
Dictionary.com
Visuwords
Invisible Web
The invisible web are web sites, web pages, documents, etc., that cannot be crawled by search engines like Google or Bing. Google and Bing use "spiders" to crawl the web and locate and index web pages. There are many resources on the Web that spiders cannot see or access including gated websites (subscription databases), dynamically generated web pages (news websites), or private networks (professional associations), library collections, etc.
To mine the invisible web or deep web you need to use special search engines including:
InfoMine
InfoMine is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.
DeepPeep
DeepPeep is a search engine specialized in Web forms. The current beta version currently tracks 45,000 forms across 7 domains.
Intute
Intute is created by a consortium of seven universities, working together with a whole host of partners.
University of Birmingham
University of Bristol
Heriot-Watt University
The University of Manchester
Manchester Metropolitan University
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
There are hundreds of thousands of databases that contain Deep Web content. CompletePlanet is the front door to these Deep Web databases on the Web and to the thousands of regular search engines — it is the first step in trying to find highly topical information. By tracing through CompletePlanet's subject structure or searching Deep Web sites, you can go to various topic areas, such as energy or agriculture or food or medicine, and find rich content sites not accessible using conventional search engines.
InfoPlease
InfoPlease is a free, authoritative, and respected reference for Internet users, provides a comprehensive encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, dictionary, ...
Blog Finders
Technorati
Gigablast Blogs
Google Blog Search
Feedster
Daypop
IceRocket
Bloglines
Sphere
Blog Search Engine
Copyright Friendly Image Resources
Please keep in mind that when searching these resources from remote/home computers (computers not on the school network and thus not protected by our filters) that your filters may not be "strong" enough to block inappropriate images, e.g., images that appear based on a keyword search or ads that might appear on these sites. Make sure you are assisting your student with the image search process.
Internet Archive (The Wayback Machine):
Access images, Open Source Audio, videos, books, etc.
Bigfoto
Free Digital Photos
If you use a free image in video productions, please acknowledge the photographer and FreeDigitalPhotos.net as the image source.
Pics4Learning
Graphics Search Options (scroll down to photos and select a link that you think best fits what you're looking for)
Wikimedia
Compfight
Behold
Creative Commons
OpenPhoto
Morguefile
Use Image Filter to help you located appropriate images. Under Creative type in Creative Commons and Share Alike to find CC licensed images.
Copyright Friendly Resources Wiki
Loads of links to other Copyright Friendly image resources.
Music & Sounds
Soundzabound
Freesound
Soundsnap **Film Music Moby.com**
This portion of moby.com, 'film music', is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short. to use the site you log in(or on?) and are then given a password. you can then listen to the available music and download whatever you want to use in your film or video or short. the music is free as long as it's being used in a non-commercial or non-profit film, video, or short.